Climate vote threatens some Dems' careers - US Politics - NJ.com

“Tom Perriello’s national energy tax vote was the defining moment of his short career,” NRCC spokesman Andy Seres said, adding that voters in his district who once thought of him as “that nice young man … is actually a smug globalist who cares more about his Daily Kos cred than the farmers, laborers and middle-class families in his district.”
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“The Republicans may win some seats because of this vote, but they can’t regain their souls for demagoguing the issue,” Perriello said.

Scotland’s Sheep Shrinking Each Generation as Temperatures Rise - Bloomberg.com

The average Soay sheep on Hirta island off western Scotland decreased in weight by 81 grams (3 ounces) a year for more than two decades, researchers said today in the journal Science. That’s because they have to eat less in their early months to survive winters that became shorter and milder, they wrote.

“Climate change has led to a change in the growth rate which has fed through to the fact that the average sheep is now smaller,” study co-author Tim Coulson, a biologist at Imperial College London, said in an interview. “Whether in the future we’re going to get miniature bonsai sheep, I have no idea.”

[Fair and balanced headline?] Franken provides a 60th Democratic vote, but not a panacea - The Globe and Mail

Climate-change legislation may get voted out of committee before the August recess. But a floor vote is unlikely before the fall, at best. And some observers suspect the White House and Senate Democratic leadership may defer the vote until next year, in hopes of brokering a compromise during the delay.